The below Parliamentary question was asked by David Hanson on 2016-01-27.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many GP surgeries have adopted the use of the GP2GP system developed by the Health and Social Care Information Centre.
George Freeman
7,547 general practitioner practices in England were live with the GP2GP system at the end of November 2015; this equates to 97.7% of all GP2GP eligible practices within England.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by David Hanson on 2016-02-11.
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what the average hourly earnings of (a) female, (b) male, (c) full-time and (d) part-time employees of the Government Equalities Office were in each of the last five years.
Caroline Dinenage
The Government Equalities Office (GEO) transferred into the Department for Education on 1 September 2015. Prior to September, GEO were part of DCMS. We are therefore not able to provide historical salary data.
The Government Equalities Office (GEO) pays annual salaries. These have been converted to hourly rates using the calculation ((Gross Basic Salary*FTE)/52)/Weekly hours.
Please find details of the average hourly earnings of the groups of GEO staff requested below:
|
Mar-11 |
Mar-12 |
Mar-13 |
Mar-14 |
Mar-15 |
Jan-16 |
|
|
Male |
– |
– |
– |
– |
– |
£25.33 |
|
Female |
– |
– |
– |
– |
– |
£23.38 |
|
Full-time |
– |
– |
– |
– |
– |
£24.06 |
|
Part-time |
– |
– |
– |
– |
– |
£23.94 |
The below Parliamentary question was asked by David Hanson on 2016-02-10.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many flights were attended by the Border Force beyond the primary control points in each of the last five years.
James Brokenshire
Border Force does not have the requested data prior to 2012/13. Since then we have made improvements to our command and control of general aviation, including our national statistical reporting, and are able to provide full details from 2013 onwards.
During 2013/14 Border Force a) attended 27,299 flights and remotely cleared 18,885 flights
During 2014/15 Border Force a) attended 27,033 flights and remotely cleared 32,042
The figures quoted are management information, subject to internal quality checks and may be subject to change.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by David Hanson on 2016-06-13.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when he expects Capita to respond to the right hon. Member for Delyn in relation to correspondence dated 1 February, 14 April and 10 June 2016 relating to Mrs M. of Flint.
Justin Tomlinson
The letters to which you refer were received by Capita but not processed in line with their standard procedures. Capita apologises for the delay and any inconvenience caused and are investigating why their procedures were not followed.
Capita sent their reply to the honourable Member on Friday, 17 June.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by David Hanson on 2016-10-17.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether police forces in Wales are required to contribute to the UK’s Apprenticeship Levy.
Brandon Lewis
The apprenticeship levy will be introduced on 6 April 2017. The levy will be paid by an employer, in any sector, with a pay bill more than £3 million each year. This includes police forces in England and Wales.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by David Hanson on 2015-10-09.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many deaths there have been as a result of faulty heart pacemakers in each year since 2010.
George Freeman
Clinicians are encouraged and manufacturers are mandated to report deaths and other incidents to the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) if they suspect a device fault.
The numbers of United Kingdom deaths reported annually since 2010 to the MHRA involving patients implanted with approved pacemakers, are as follows:
|
Year |
Deaths reported involving pacemaker patients |
|
2015 – present |
1 |
|
2014 |
8 |
|
2013 |
3 |
|
2012 |
3 |
|
2011 |
1 |
|
2010 |
4 |
According to registry data from 2014, over 35,000 pacemakers are implanted annually in the UK. Therefore the number of reported patient deaths listed above which could have potentially related to pacemaker failure represents no more than 0.01% of this population.
Analysis of MHRA investigation conclusions revealed that none of the above deaths resulted from a faulty pacemaker.
As the UK regulatory authority, the MHRA is responsible for monitoring the safety of medical devices once they have been approved for market. Although the majority of pacemakers are well functioning, the MHRA actively monitor the performance of implants using a variety of methods.
One key element involves the investigation of device-related adverse incidents, where manufacturers’ mandatory reports are supplemented by voluntary reports from clinicians and members of the public using the yellow card system.
The MHRA challenges manufacturers if it is believed that the proposed post-investigation action is inadequate to protect public health.
Every new incident, including those involving pacemakers, is assessed and assigned to an appropriate type of investigation according to its severity and the likelihood of obtaining further information on the cause of the event. All reports, even those unsuitable for further investigation, are fully recorded and subject to periodic trend analysis by the MHRA to look for signals suggesting any possible device-related problems.
In addition to scrutinizing manufacturers’ device data provided in incident investigations, and their published product performance reports, the MHRA also monitors relevant published research and articles on potential safety concerns as part of its surveillance of the medical device market. If evidence emerges that affects the safety of UK pacemaker patients, the Agency issues advice to the health service and takes any necessary regulatory action.
Furthermore the Agency actively engages with the clinicians and professional bodies to gauge their opinion on early indications for failure and problems encountered with device usage.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by David Hanson on 2015-10-09.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many applications from Normandy veterans for the award of the Legion d’Honneur have been made to his Department since 6 June 2014; how many such applications have been approved for forwarding to the French government; and how many of those applications have resulted in receipt of a medal by veterans.
Mark Lancaster
Ministry of Defence (MOD) officials have received approximately 3,850 applications from Normandy veterans in the period 6 June 2014 to date; about 3,300 had been sent to the French authorities by April this year. The French system was overwhelmed by these and other applications from Allied nations, which have far exceeded expectations. We jointly developed a new administrative process with the French whereby, since July 2015, 100 cases per week have been re-submitted to the French authorities.
The MOD is not routinely informed when an individual veteran is awarded the Legion d’Honneur as this is a matter for the French authorities. MOD officials understand that around 150 awards had been made by the beginning of July and that, subsequently, approximately 950 additional awards have been approved; of these we believe that about 600 may have been sent out. I am confident that this number will increase significantly over the coming weeks and months.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by David Hanson on 2015-10-09.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment (a) his Department and (b) the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency have made of (i) the rate of reported faults in heart pacemakers and (ii) research from UK and non-UK sources on heart pacemakers since 2010.
George Freeman
Clinicians are encouraged and manufacturers are mandated to report deaths and other incidents to the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) if they suspect a device fault.
The numbers of United Kingdom deaths reported annually since 2010 to the MHRA involving patients implanted with approved pacemakers, are as follows:
|
Year |
Deaths reported involving pacemaker patients |
|
2015 – present |
1 |
|
2014 |
8 |
|
2013 |
3 |
|
2012 |
3 |
|
2011 |
1 |
|
2010 |
4 |
According to registry data from 2014, over 35,000 pacemakers are implanted annually in the UK. Therefore the number of reported patient deaths listed above which could have potentially related to pacemaker failure represents no more than 0.01% of this population.
Analysis of MHRA investigation conclusions revealed that none of the above deaths resulted from a faulty pacemaker.
As the UK regulatory authority, the MHRA is responsible for monitoring the safety of medical devices once they have been approved for market. Although the majority of pacemakers are well functioning, the MHRA actively monitor the performance of implants using a variety of methods.
One key element involves the investigation of device-related adverse incidents, where manufacturers’ mandatory reports are supplemented by voluntary reports from clinicians and members of the public using the yellow card system.
The MHRA challenges manufacturers if it is believed that the proposed post-investigation action is inadequate to protect public health.
Every new incident, including those involving pacemakers, is assessed and assigned to an appropriate type of investigation according to its severity and the likelihood of obtaining further information on the cause of the event. All reports, even those unsuitable for further investigation, are fully recorded and subject to periodic trend analysis by the MHRA to look for signals suggesting any possible device-related problems.
In addition to scrutinizing manufacturers’ device data provided in incident investigations, and their published product performance reports, the MHRA also monitors relevant published research and articles on potential safety concerns as part of its surveillance of the medical device market. If evidence emerges that affects the safety of UK pacemaker patients, the Agency issues advice to the health service and takes any necessary regulatory action.
Furthermore the Agency actively engages with the clinicians and professional bodies to gauge their opinion on early indications for failure and problems encountered with device usage.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by David Hanson on 2014-06-25.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her contribution of 12 June 2014, Official Report, column 693, which countries have agreed to accept the one year extension passports to be issued to UK citizens living abroad.
James Brokenshire
The list of countries that will accept British passports extended by 12 months
is set out out on the .GOV.UK website and can be found at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/list-of-countries-that-will-accept-pa
ssports-extended-by-12-months.
The following table sets out the current list of countries which have already agreed to
accept the extended British passports.
The list is updated on a daily basis.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by David Hanson on 2014-06-25.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the statement of 24 June 2014, Official Report, column 206, on student visas, on what date her Department first became aware of the systematic cheating taking place in the tests of the Educational Testing Service.
James Brokenshire
Since the last election, the Government has taken action to reduce and control
immigration and to crack down on the abuse of the system which the previous
government failed to address. We have kept the main immigration routes to
Britain under review and remain vigilant against abuse of the student visa
system. Around 750 education sponsors have been removed from the register of
those entitled to bring overseas students to the UK. We now know that almost
400 of these were linked to the sponsorship of people who obtained invalid ETS
certificates. Abuse of the student visa route has been the subject of various
lines of inquiry for some time, but Immigration Enforcement officers, together
with officials from UK Visas and Immigration and with the support of the
National Crime Agency, began conducting a detailed and wide-ranging
investigation into actions by organised criminals to falsify English language
tests provided by ETS at the start of February.